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UNTTED sTATEs PATENT onirica `OBEDVI-EMPTON, OF NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS. i

MACHINE FOR PARCELING ROPE.

Speccaton of Letters Patent No. 408, dated March 26, 183,7.

TQ all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, the undersigned, OBED KnMr'roN, of New Bedford, in the county of Bristol and State yof Massachusetts, have invented and claim as my invention a new .and useful machine, called a Parceling-Machine, of which the following is an exact description, to wit.

An oblong square box of sheet iron or other suitable material, open at the top, with a compact plate of iron separating said box into two equal parts horizontally. Said box may be made of any dimensions which may be found convenient. The lower half of said box is tted with a flue and pan and other necessary fire apparatus. The uppermost half is furnished a vcylinder o-f wood resting on the parallel edges of the longest sides of the bo-x, made to revolve so that the surface thereof shall be in the plane of a half section of the said uppermost half of said box, on the edges of one of the above sides and parallel thereto, is

placedl on two projected arms a vspindle and crank. To the spindle is attached a spring or fork for fastening the end of the cloth thereto. Directly underneath the spindle is placed a pan three inches in width and of the same length of the spindle parallel to the said cylinderis fastened a narrow strip'of-metal or wood, called a regulator, having its edge so near to the circumference of this cylinder as to determine the quantity of tar passed upon a revolution of said roller. The whole machine is supported upon four metallic legs.

The mannerof using said machine is as follows: A suflicient quantity of tar is put into the upper half of said box and warmed by're being placed in the lower half. A strip of canvas is then attached to the said spindle, by the said springer fork and the Y. i Y

canvas being held by the hand upon the. l

wooden cylinder, the crank being put in motion the canvas causes the roller 'to revolve in the tar and is smeared and saturated bythe process,l so as to fit it in the best manner. forthe rigger, and is wound upon thel spindle. .Thus a very great saving of timeand laboris made overthe old .mode of putting the tar on by hand. When a suiiicient quantity of parceling is wound onto the spindle, it is detached, (the spindle being so constructed that it may be attached and detached at pleasure) theparceling is then slipped olf.

What I claaim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The making of parceling by passing the canvas or cloth overa cylinder, which re-v OBED KEMPTON.-

W'itnesses:

MANAssnH KEMPTON, 2d, JOHN BURRAGE. 

